Hi everyone, I'm looking for a good resource that will explain the concept of RPMs to me. So far I've used YAST to cary out all my RPM operations so I'm not actually very clued up on the technoology itself. I was also wondering if there was a guide out there that could explain best practice for using RPMs with SUSE. I've built xinelib and kaffeine from source, for example, and now YOU keeps telling me that I should update to a newly available, though lower version. I was thinking that using RPMs might have prevented this little annoyance. Thanks in advance.
On 08/10/04 03:11 PM, Paul Howie
I'm looking for a good resource that will explain the concept of RPMs to me. So far I've used YAST to cary out all my RPM operations so I'm not actually very clued up on the technoology itself.
The book Maximum RPM is the best resource I've found on them, available here: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ Its a little out of date now, but all the important stuff is there. Regards, Ben
The Friday 2004-10-08 at 16:11 +0200, Paul Howie wrote:
I was also wondering if there was a guide out there that could explain best practice for using RPMs with SUSE. I've built xinelib and kaffeine from source, for example, and now YOU keeps telling me that I should update to a newly available, though lower version. I was thinking that using RPMs might have prevented this little annoyance.
Substituting the 'make install' phase with 'checkinstall' solves that particular problem. It creates an (non optimal) rpm package that keeps rpm happy. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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Ben Higginbottom
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Carlos E. R.
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Paul Howie